Musicreatures

Musicreatures is a novel iPhone app that utilizes the multimodal interaction capabilities of smart phones in playful, real-time musicalization. Musicreatures is targeted for all users regardless of their prior musical background.

With Musicreatures, the user can create music in a simple game-like environment mainly using motion gestures. The user is in control of groups of musical blobs that play music according to how the device is moved. A number of musical restrictions are automatically enforced in order to assist the user in achieving musically satisfying results.

The source code of Musicreatures is available at GitHub.

Discovery Research Group

Musicreatures was done in the Discovery Research Group, affiliated with the University of Helsinki Department of Computer Science and Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT. The Discovery research group develops novel methods and tools for data science and for computational creativity. In the intersection of these fields, the Discovery research group develops creative systems and applications that learn to create.